Atlas Trainmaster

| Did the Southern Pacific have specific freight train assignments for this | engine? | Might someone know what engine(s) pulled the SP "Overnight Express"?

Most of their lives they pulled commuter trains between San Jose and San Francisco. I'm sure that they did a share of local freight on the weekends. They were equipped with steam generators and other passenger stuff so they wouldn't be scheduled to get far from their commuter terminals.

CTucker NY

Thanks Chris!

They also were used on non-commute passenger runs. I have ridden the Del Monte down to Monterey/Carmel more times than I can remember. Always behind a Train Master. It was on one of those trips that we got hit by a pickup truck at Castroville. The truck ran under the train between the engine and the first car.

Froggy,

ONe other item of note is that the FM Trainmasters were the only diesels that were able to keep to the time schedules that were set by the Mountains that used to pull the commuter trains.

-- Why do penguins walk so far to get to their nesting grounds?

Why didn't MU'ing enough other units work?

You then end up with trains made up of mostly locos rather than cars! Only the Alco locos would wind up fast enough to make this possible. The EMD units would hardly be able to keep the schedule just by themselves. If GE U-boats were around then, they couldn't have kept the schedule.

-- Why do penguins walk so far to get to their nesting grounds?